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jhbrown

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About jhbrown

Founder at Veradept, Inc. (veradept.com) which:

- curates stories of, and articles about, doomed projects at doomedprojects.com.

- provides a lightweight tool for developers to do software project estimation and tracking at doomcheck.com.

Feel free to contact me via:

- Email (most reliable): jhbrown@veradept.com .

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremy-h-brown/

- Twitter: @jhbrown94 (at least until Twitter finishes burning down)

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    Slides author here. Thanks for flagging that. I'll fix it before I give the talk again, most likely in 2044 :)

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    Thanks for the kind words, I'm very glad you like this! It would be neat to be able to "show work", but I'm not entirely sure how to achieve that in a way that adds enlightenment i…

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    One of the recurring problems my early users have had is the need to move data back and forth between DoomCheck and their organizational system, most commonly Jira. So you're right…

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    You're exactly right! Under the hood, DoomCheck actually uses a log-logistic distribution -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log-logistic_distribution -- which it fits using the rang…

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    At a prior startup of mine, we needed to set prices for a series of 12-month, fixed-price, fixed-deliverable contracts. Since most tools typically used for planning software projec…

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